Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nicaragua, whose leftist Sandinistas have made no secret of their support for the F.M.L.N. guerrillas, was helping in other ominous ways. El Cuco, a beachside resort in the eastern part of El Salvador, witnessed an invasion by 100 guerrillas in five 30-ft. wooden boats; they almost certainly came from Nicaragua. Government forces claimed to have captured one boat and bottled up the invaders in the beach area, killing 52 of them...
...unable-except through uninformative flashbacks-to reveal the inner workings of Eva's sensibility, the film makers have avoided anything that might be melodramatic or even openly emotional. All the suffering in Tell Me a Riddle is thus stoic, all triumphs without joy. Movement is glacial, dialogue wooden, characterizations blurred. One has a feeling that this project-brought to fruition without the financial support of the film industry, by three young woman producers who love the Olsen work-is faithful to the letter of the book, but heedless of the need to give the story a freer, less cautious...
...black sculpture remains the core of her work. It reached its climax in 1977 with a big wooden construction, a sort of tempietto, or metaphysical shanty, called Mrs. N's Palace. "I fell in love with black; it contained all color," she comments. "It wasn't a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Black is the most aristocratic color of all, the only aristocratic color. For me this is the ultimate. You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing...
...Celebration, a 30-ft.-high steel construction done for the PepsiCo headquarters at Purchase, N.Y., in 1976, or the 54-ft. Sky Tree, 1977, in San Francisco's Embarcadero Center, have an ornamental blandness that verges on the slick-the last word that could imaginably apply to her wooden walls and environments. One is left with the impression not of sculpture that confidently occupies its own scale but of inflated maquettes. Night Presence IV, 1972, which Nevelson offered as a personal gift to New York City-it stands at Park Avenue and 92nd Street-is the most successful...
...afternoon he was far out in the woods clearing one of his riding trails. With an 8-ft. pruning pole he reached high into the drooping branches, poking, pulling, sawing back and forth. For years he has stretched his muscles with a small, rubber-tired wheel that has a wooden bar through its center. Crouched on his knees, Reagan rolls the wheel far out in front of him, back and forth, 30 or 40 times. He even carries it with him on the road...